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No Man's Sky |OT| Hello Worlds.
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Jesus, 20 hours in going purely towards the core and I'm still 166k away. That's after four black holes and doing nothing but picking the 'towards the center' option.
It's harrowing isn't it.
I've discovered that if you go into 'Free exploration' mode you can make a far more direct path towards the galactic center. Just orient the camera towards the big light and zoom forward, select a star. This is especially good if you have a couple of Warp Drive upgrades - you can make leaps of 600-800 lightyears in one go, and you'll still come across Space Anomalies.
This way you also get Green/Red/Blue stars which give you better variety.
noomi
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Moments like these are why this game is much fun ^_^
I enjoyed what other game developers thought about the game:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/279284/What_devs_are_saying_about_No_Mans_Sky.php
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/279284/What_devs_are_saying_about_No_Mans_Sky.php
DukeLongfellow
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If you scan a building it will put a small dot on it that will continue to be visible in the system, effectively making it a waypoint which you can then remove by scanning (L3) its area.
Helped me if I wanted to return to a place but sometimes, like in the cases of Trading Outposts (the few story high thing with miltiple launch pads), it doesn't work. So I dunno.
Indeed - can't wait to jump back in.
The space battles feel really unbalanced. I'm in the 4th star system on the Atlas path and warped in to a freighter battle with 22 enemy crafts. I mined gold for a few hours this weekend and bought a 2M ship that should be very capable for the area I'm in, but there was literally nothing I could do. I killed a couple of them and then attempted to flee because they were swarming so fast I could barely see them. Am I missing something, or does the game give you no viable method of retreat? For some ungodly stupid reason it locks out your pulse engine when enemies are nearby, thereby dooming you to die.
Think I'll hang off a bit on installing my second warp drive upgrade. Taking a while to get all this Nickel and Aluminum and I can go from interface to interface in just two jumps with the first one.
Found a beautiful ship with +3 inventory in a much better arrangement and was only 100k off from affording it :/ Really tempting to throw all my money at it but need to keep telling myself I have 15 more suit upgrades to go.
Found a beautiful ship with +3 inventory in a much better arrangement and was only 100k off from affording it :/ Really tempting to throw all my money at it but need to keep telling myself I have 15 more suit upgrades to go.
Finally got to a 48-slot ship last night.
I bought my way up to around 32 slots. Did Vykeen transmission towers for the next 6. Eventually decided to warp until I found a Gek system to spam their transmission towers. I definitely recommend Gek towers if you want slots asap. If you break down ship components before swapping, the process pretty much sustains itself and by the end you have enough mats to build/reorganize your ship equipment for adjacency.
Though I still need to work on my dogfighting skills. I got shot down by a group of 5 pirates when I took the new ship on its maiden space voyage.
I bought my way up to around 32 slots. Did Vykeen transmission towers for the next 6. Eventually decided to warp until I found a Gek system to spam their transmission towers. I definitely recommend Gek towers if you want slots asap. If you break down ship components before swapping, the process pretty much sustains itself and by the end you have enough mats to build/reorganize your ship equipment for adjacency.
Though I still need to work on my dogfighting skills. I got shot down by a group of 5 pirates when I took the new ship on its maiden space voyage.
Holy shit, really? The most mine has taken me is nine thousand lightyears I think.
Really interesting POV (and thanks for the great link) although I disagree with him. This would only be true if you arrived at planets, killed everything, sucked up every resource, and moved on to the next immediate planet.
The bugs from Starship Troopers killed everything they could and sucked up every resource they could. There's no way in NMS you could kill everything on a planet or suck up every jot of a resource on a planet.
Love a good silly conversation.
My dogfighting technique:
- identify the target you want to attack
- swap to the pulse beam
- fire one pulse beam blast at it (this automatically hits the enemy ship and 'targets' them for you
- immediately swap to the photon cannon and aim for the floating target crosshair
- with plenty of weapon upgrades, this process takes about 5 seconds per-ship to dispatch
It's definitely viable. I think you can also viably attack the big freighter ships in each system for resources, but they must send tens of mooks just for you
You consume a bit less fuel. Not worth it really. I have all of them installed anyway though since I have a 48 slot ship.
noomi
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They allow you to travel further, especially when you stack them
Could be a difference between 300 or 800 light years for example.
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nevermind, your talking about pulse engines...
Pulse, not warp drive
Remember to hit blue and green stars when you can (I think they types are E and O). They have rarer materials like Nickel and Alu.
I've watched this dozens of time now, I'm dying. I adore No Man's Sky, but the second animal really is a good representation of its fauna in general.
noomi
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I got my first multi-tool upgrade yesterday, more slots!
I don't really understand what some of these upgrades do, some of the descriptions seem redundant....
Is there any upgrades that allow you to get more materials from mining. For example if I mine an Aluminum Spike, normally I get 10 pieces... with an upgrade would it possible to lets say increase it to 20?
I don't really understand what some of these upgrades do, some of the descriptions seem redundant....
Is there any upgrades that allow you to get more materials from mining. For example if I mine an Aluminum Spike, normally I get 10 pieces... with an upgrade would it possible to lets say increase it to 20?
OH MY GOD! THIS IS A TIME SAVER!
UpDownLeftRight
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I was under the impression that Black Holes were actually broken. They claim to send me distances past the core but move me about as much as a TAU drive jump does. I've abandoned the idea of ever reaching it due to the ridiculous time sink.
Reading it more, I think this is worth a whole thread you know. It's really great to see some developer's perspectives on the game and shines a light on how much of a unique, strange project it is.
In my experience fighters will engage you in squadrons of 3 or more. So it's important to watch how, when and who you attack. Killing off a squadron and then waiting before you engage more is sometimes what saves you or gives you a chance to retreat. Recharge your shields regularly and learn evasive maneuvers. A 2mil ship likely still has basic weaponry and shields so you're likely very fragile. Also if you're using a non-fighter type your maneuverability is also likely quite poor.
Early on you are sort-of thrown in on the deep-end but a bit later when you've got around a 30 slotter, especially a fighter, you can chew through 20 ships easily
Always the same. Sigma = S. Tau = T, Theta = Why did they pick this letter.
It makes no sense. Which is why Theta is the better of the three. Because it makes no sense. Idk, that's my way of remembering it. It should've been Upsilon. Or any of the letters after it in the alphabet. Or start at rho. Whatever, it's really been bothering me.
Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. Fuel is abundant so I don't mind.
They allow you to travel further, especially when you stack them
Could be a difference between 300 or 800 light years for example.
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nevermind, your talking about pulse engines...
Those hyperdrives are definitely getting used! I have all of the upgrades too. Pretty hype!
Holy fuck.
zer0blivion
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Yeah, search for "transmissions" with the scanners and it's the transmission towers that allow you to locate crashed ships. Activating beacons that you find will point you to shelters and some of those camps also have transmission towers.
The Elite
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They're unpredictable.
wowbaggerBR
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Dogfighting have been proving itself a nice surprise in this game. I thought I'd hate it, but I'm getting pretty good at it. I would definitely move towards becoming a pirate.
TheCanisDirus
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I ALWAYS find observatories when bypass/beacon scanning. Makes no sense whatsoever. Literally dozens of observatories but no transmission towers in the last few systems!
Thanks for the info. How do you differentiate between different classes of ship, and what classes are there exactly? I assumed it was like your multi-tool, in that the upgrades installed are what determine the capability rather than innate properties.
Cheers guys.
One more question... the 'outposts' and space stations I've run into so far, they seem to be all of similar design. Just often slightly remixed versions of the same blueprint it seems. Is this just because I've been in only one little part of the galaxy so far? Do the structures become more varied/alien or should I expect this similarity across the game? I can understand if they are, I guess it makes the game more 'readable', but just wondering if I should get my hopes up for truly different stuff or not.
Awesome info, thank you.
RenTargino
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The Atlas Path and going to the core are different paths? Do I have to choose one or another?
I want to get to the core, but I also want to follow the Atlas Path.
I want to get to the core, but I also want to follow the Atlas Path.
Abandoned my PS4 copy when the PC version came out. Been playing for 9 hours I think, and it's pretty much all been spent on the second planet I found in a Gek system. Place is just littered with suit upgrades. Is that normal? I think I'm up to 32 slots now and I feel like I should, you know, actually explore other planets but I don't want to abandon any pods just to travel to a wasteland.
Also, is there any way to mark places on the surface? Most times, if I find a pod and don't have the cash, I leave the save point a question mark so I can hopefully find my way back. Would love to be able to set my own waypoints.
Also, is there any way to mark places on the surface? Most times, if I find a pod and don't have the cash, I leave the save point a question mark so I can hopefully find my way back. Would love to be able to set my own waypoints.
zer0blivion
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From what I've seen, alien trailer park kinda sums it up. Broken down trailers with junk everywhere, jacked up satellite dishes on cinder blocks...
I don't know how I feel about this, to be honest. It kind of ruins any sense of progression with ships.
Crashed ships should have a random amount of slots, with rare ones having more slots than the one you have instead of consistently having always 1 more slot. Imagine the feeling of discovery if you stumbled upon a ship that has 10 more slots than your current.
This is how you can do so for now: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=213455313&postcount=14336
Found an extreme nuclear planet last night. The ravines were so big that when a nuclear storm blew in you couldn't see the bottom, or anything really. Survival was extremely tough. There was a 25 minute hike to a crashed ship, and since I wanted to increase my extreme survival milestone I did it by foot. Very interesting trek. Hardest survival I've had in the game so far. The constant scramble for tiny scraps of zinc to recharge my rad shield was real.
This is exactly, to a tee, how I did it, although I'm not yet at 48 and am not sure whether I'll bother. 40 slots really feels like more than enough for the moment.
Good guide.
It's garbage, though, and if you happen to scan for minerals while nearby it's really easy to clear the waypoint by accident. Like, you set the waypoint and are ready to go. Get in your ship and you need plutonium to take off. Get out, scan, get plutonium. Take off. Realise two minutes later that your scan cleared the waypoint.
It's a confusing, useless system. Proper player-placed beacons are really a necessity and must surely be coming by patch.
Agreed, but it's clear that almost every aspect of the game design is to prevent you from making any kind of 'big leap' in progression because they're terrified that you'll get 'lucky' early on and the absence of the motivation to upgrade stuff will expose the game's lack of content. Basically, the game is the grind, so they can't let you luck out of the grind.
This is exactly, to a tee, how I did it, although I'm not yet at 48 and am not sure whether I'll bother. 40 slots really feels like more than enough for the moment.
Good guide.
It's garbage, though, and if you happen to scan for minerals while nearby it's really easy to clear the waypoint by accident. Like, you set the waypoint and are ready to go. Get in your ship and you need plutonium to take off. Get out, scan, get plutonium. Take off. Realise two minutes later that your scan cleared the waypoint.
It's a confusing, useless system. Proper player-placed beacons are really a necessity and must surely be coming by patch.
Agreed, but it's clear that almost every aspect of the game design is to prevent you from making any kind of 'big leap' in progression because they're terrified that you'll get 'lucky' early on and the absence of the motivation to upgrade stuff will expose the game's lack of content. Basically, the game is the grind, so they can't let you luck out of the grind.
guybrushfreeman
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Some shots from my snow planet today.
Yeah, it's all I've seen so far. It makes it fast to scope them out, go inside, check the machines etc. I guess procedural generation is still fairly immature though...so much potential for the future. Terrain is easy, but truly varied generation of structures, flora/fauna etc. still seems an open problem.
Kacho
Member
After spending the better part of the past week talking about the game I decided to take a chance and give this a go. My initial impressions are that the it is sorta kinda alright as far as survival games go. My only major gripes are the ship controls with mouse and keyboard. They defy all logic and are absolutely terrible.
The Elite
BOSS
You can do whatever you want but I do believe the Atlas Path and going to the core are different.
Thanks, I did not know this. Helpful as I no longer have to hit every system on the path and can pick and choose which system I go to.
Is there a summary of the star types vs. resources out there?
Well, how much you invest into your ship is up to the player, 40 might be well over the amount that some people ever need. It all depends on what you're trying to do.
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